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The automotive industry has always played a crucial role in the Bayraktarlar Group, which was founded in Kayseri. What started out as a trade business grew to become a manufacturer within four generations. The company was founded by Haji Halil Bayraktar in 1935. It started expanding with the efforts of the second generation, showing rapid advancement in the transportation of auto parts. The company’s business ventures broadened with the assistance of Haji Mehmet Bayraktar, and Bayraktarlar became one the leading companies of the region. In 1953, ?zzet Bayraktar of the third generation introduced the family business to import trading. With the belief that staying in Kayseri wouldn’t be adequate during this new process, the main offices were moved to Istanbul, and the transfer was completed in 1963. Bayraktarlar became a leader as the supplier of Mercedes parts in a short time, and, with the manufacturing of Mercedes busses in Turkey at the beginning of the 1970s, the company was appointed as the main dealer of Mercedes vehicles. As the new business opportunities that were sought in Istanbul elevated Bayraktarlar’s expertise, the company embarked on new frontiers. It became the automotive lighting agency of the French company, CIBIE. In the 1970s, the project Lassa was created along with a group of investors from Kayseri and the Sabanci family; the Bayraktarlar